In an running on WWL TV right now, Mayor Ray Nagin says that
a planned sandbag drop to stop the levee breach near pump #6
at the 17th St. Canal didn't happen and the pump has failed, so the
probability is that the "bowl will now be filled," meaning water will
flood the majority of the city including the Garden District, French
Quarter and CBD. If unabated the water will go to the level of
Lake Pontchartrain, about 3 feet ASL, which means, for example,
9 feet of water on St Charles Street.
The mayor called the missed opportunity a "blunder" and said this
would unfold over the next 12-15 hours.
Now it's time to really worry.
fh
While we're off topic, the Red Cross needs blood donations. It wont
keep networks up, but hopefully it will keep people in need alive. For
more information/ to locate the nearest Red Cross. Please visit
https://www.givelife.org for the location of the nearest blood drive.
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While we're off topic, the Red Cross needs blood donations. It wont
keep networks up, but hopefully it will keep people in need alive. For
more information/ to locate the nearest Red Cross. Please visit
https://www.givelife.org for the location of the nearest blood drive.
Or call 1-800-give-life if you happen to remember this only after
logging out.
With apologies to on-topic purists present.
While I'm not in a position to do this myself, as much as I would like to, I'm wondering if any of the relief organizations that are mobilizing down there are in need of volunteer IT/networking clue and hands setting up C&C infrastructure and whatnot. If anyone knows who the appropriate folks to contact if you're in a position to help out, even if it's just over the long weekend, I would recommend posting here.
-C
I have noticed that the Red Cross is now looking for any vaguely
disciplined people whom to train and send down there. There is also a
Red Cross IT group. Let me see ... the answer I'm given is, go to your
local Red Cross Chapter, sign up to be in the Disaster Services Human
Resources (DSHR) program, tell them your only skill is in IT [because
95% of the people going down there RIGHT NOW will be doing Mass Care].
And hope that the ARC DS people who know whom to contact about this
haven't already left for Mississippi. [I used to have a contact in the
Regional Headquarters, but there isn't a Regional Headquarters any more,
and he's probably down in the thick of things right now.]